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Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. Recently I had a question on my live show, why acne during my period? Every of the month the

ovaries take turn and ovulation.

So this month it might be the left ovary, next month it might be the right ovary, and that

correlates sometimes with acne that develops on the jawline and one side, one month, the next month

it's on the alternate side, which is actually quite interesting. But let's talk

about what actually causes the acne during menstruation when you're having your period.

If we look at the entire month, we have several things happening.

At day 14, when you're ovulating, you have the high spike of estrogen and about a week later you get the highest

spike of progestrome but during menstruation you have the lowest amount of

estrogen and the lowest amount of progestrone.

So the question is, why are you getting acne if these two are low?

Well, there's another hormone involved, and that is called testosterone.

Now, testosterone is a type of androgen,

and that is a male hormone, but even women have

a certain amount of it. But if there's too much of it in a female body you start getting facial

hair acne, hair loss, a deeper voice, things like that. Now the ovaries produce

several types of androgens which can then turn into testosterone or D.

Okay?

Also, your adrenal glands also make anogens which can also turn into testosterone, but the

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